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PJT Partners: which MBA programs it recruits from
PJT Partners (Financial Services) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 9 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits narrowly, so school choice matters if this is your target.
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 8 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 29 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
About PJT Partners
PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank headquartered in New York, founded in 2015 when Blackstone spun off its advisory business, with more than 1,200 employees across Strategic Advisory, Restructuring and Special Situations, Fund Advisory (PJT Park Hill) and Integrated Client Solutions. Its students page describes generalist Summer Analyst and Summer Associate programs, with US Summer Associate applications opening in early fall and closing in December, and full-time classes drawn mostly from the summer interns.
Official links: Website · Students and graduates page
Read from the company's own pages in October 2026. Programs and deadlines change every cycle, so check the careers page before you plan around it.
Schools whose employer lists name PJT Partners
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Chicago Booth | 2023, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Columbia CBS | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Berkeley Haas | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Yale SOM | 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| NYU Stern | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UVA Darden | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Rice Jones | 2023 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UCLA Anderson, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, Emory Goizueta, Minnesota Carlson. A gap means the school did not print the name for those classes, which is not proof it never hires there: some schools publish only companies that hired several graduates, and a few publish a hand-picked selection. The school pages say how each list was built.
Other financial services employers with wide reach
Bank of America (25) · J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (25) · Goldman Sachs (22) · Wells Fargo (22) · Morgan Stanley (21) · Barclays (20) · Capital One (20) · Citigroup (20)
Questions about PJT Partners
Which MBA programs does PJT Partners recruit from?
PJT Partners is named on the published employer lists of 9 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton, Chicago Booth, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, NYU Stern, UVA Darden and Rice Jones.
Does PJT Partners hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists PJT Partners as an employer for the Classes of 2023 and 2024 and 2025. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does PJT Partners sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 8 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 29 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial). The record covers all of the company's approved new petitions, not MBA hires alone.
How do I get to PJT Partners from a school that doesn't list it?
Most hiring at firms like this comes through networking rather than on-campus recruiting, and the schools that do list it are where that network is densest. Build your school list around the programs that name your target employers, and say so in your applications. The report's How to choose schools section explains how.